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USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206) slides into the water during the christening ceremony at General Dynamic NASSCO, San Diego – Photo: Sarah Burford, Public Domain In a tense House hearing, a pair of ...
By Chris Churchill, Columnist June 7, 2025 Harvey Milk's Castro Street camera store was a hub of political activity for San Francisco’s growing gay population in the mid-1970s AP/Associated Press ...
Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.) said he doesn’t agree with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to rename the USNS Harvey, removing the commemoration of gay activist Harvey Milk.
Mosaic Navy ship honoring gay rights icon Harvey Milk is being stripped of his name Updated: Jun. 05, 2025, 5:28 p.m. | Published: Jun. 05, 2025, 2:38 p.m.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to strike the name of gay rights activist and late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk from one of its ships, orchestrating the change ...
Harvey Milk’s life and service have been honored frequently over the decades since the San Francisco supervisor was slain (along with then-San Francisco Mayor George Moscone) by a conservative ...
Sean Penn and 'Milk' screenwriter Dustin Lance Black criticized Pete Hegseth's plan to remove Harvey Milk's name from a Navy ship.
In early June 2025, also known as Pride Month, rumors circulated that Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, was a p********.
Harvey Milk (1930 – 1978), an openly gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, sits outside his camera shop in San Francisco, November 9, 1977.
The USNS Harvey Milk was named in 2016 by then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who said at the time that the John Lewis-class of oilers would be named after leaders who fought for civil and human rights.
Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn, who won Academy Awards for writing and starring in the 2008 Harvey Milk biopic Milk, are speaking out on orders from U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to remove ...
He was assassinated in 1978, The Hill reported. Milk served during the Korean War and was forced to resign because he was gay, which was a crime at that time. USNS Harvey Milk was named in 2016.